Friday, June 15, 2012

Guided Math Chapter 2

How does my
Classroom Environment measure up to the Principles of Guided Math?

“Learning at its
best is a social process”

This is noticeable
during math stations.Both teacher and
students are “active participates in learning.”

“It is okay to make
mistakes”

I let my little ones
know they learn from their mistakes but deep down I don’t think they believe
me.I need to help them move to that
next level of understanding.

I want to add a number line underneath my smart board.

Classroom Arrangement

+Large Group Area

+Daily Calendar includes
hundreds chart on smartboard.. should I make this visible by hanging it up somewhere in the classroom??

+small group area

use little
white boards more as part of the learning process

This is my math center. I need to rethink how I use the easel. I might flip it the other way and have math vocabulary on it. My little ones use the magnetic white board to put math manipulatives on it.

Class Expectations

+Everything has a
home

+Everything is
labeled and easily accessible

Spend time
carefully teaching procedures of cleaning up at the beginning of the year it
will save time later.

Spend more
time on behavior expectations and working independently, what should they do if
they have a problem or if they finish early.

Clearly
marked finish box and Pick Up Box.

Interruptions should only be for the
bathroom!!!

This is the chart I made last year. I definitely want to redo this! I need to address what to do if you finish early and what do if you have a problem.

Morning Calendar Routine

This was new for me this year.I really do not know where I adopted this
idea from because I would love to give credit to that teacher.However I took it from someone online and my
partner teacher and I made something that worked for me.

My little ones came in and signed in and then began their
calendar journal.They traced the name of
the month.They circled the day.Then they printed to the date.At the beginning to the year we did this
together as the year went on they are capable of doing this without
instruction. I do not have a picture of this because it changes every year.

Then they read on the carpet until I started the smart board calendar.When we get to the tally marks
in the calendar they returned to their seats and we completed the calendar
journals together.

This changes throughout the year as well. At the beginning of the year we count to the 100th day of school. Then at fourth quarter we switch and count backwards to the last day of kindergarten.

Each day I taped in a problem of the day.I purchased them from Mrs. Wills’ blog or
Mrs. Jump had some as well.I even made
some on my own to match some of our themes.

Chapter 2
suggests a Math Journal….do I want to add this as well?A math journal would be a place where my
little ones could draw math vocabulary.A place where my little ones could practice other activities or notes
from small group or Math Huddles.

What can I add
to my classroom environment to show the importance of mathematics?

I want to move my
teaching style to be more where the teacher shares in the process of
learning.Where the teachers models,
facilitates, and co-learns with the students.

A sign of a
productive classroom is ideas.This is
something I feel my students are afraid to express ideas.They always want to know what is right, Am I
doing this right.I want them to express
more ideas.

I also need to work
on this in math and reading and writing…..does
it make sense!!!!

Think it through

·Explain
your thinking

·Listen
to one another

·What
other ways could this problem be solved?

Sharing builds confidence

Thinking
back to my classroom last year I didn’t have the number words, shape words,
size words, and other math vocabulary hanging up in my classroom.

I want to
create more graphic organizers or charts to display in the math center for my
little ones to refer too.

Most
Importantly I want to make sure that when we read literature WE look for a math
connections.I want my little ones to
realize that math is part of our daily lives, just like I do with reading.

If you want to read more thoughts from Chapter 2 Guided Math I linked up at 3rd Grade Gridiron

9 comments:

I had a similar question about the calendar on the smartboard. I don't have a smartboard, but I have the Activinspire program in my class that we do daily calendar on over our projector, so I was wondering if I should put the physical calendar up also. I have such limited wall space, so I couldn't decide. I did have a 100s chart up the whole year. I am enjoying following along!LisaLearning Is Something to Treasure

Thanks LisaI do have the physical calendar up in my room because we do refer to it throughout the day. However the months, days of the week, tally marks, temp. poems and other things we do on the smart board.

Sue,Like you, I questioned whether I needed to display everything on my walls. As a 4th grade teacher, we've not done calendar math/meeting board every day, but I'd like to implement it next year. I definitely will use my Promethean board, but I'm also thinking I'll have a lot of the "stuff" on the walls. I'm envisioning my calendar (already there), math words, anchor charts. I don't know about the other stuff. I haven't decided.

I loved reading your thoughts on chapter 2. I think if you give each of your students a hundred chart in their math folder, or binder, etc. then you don;t need one posted on your walls and on your smartboard as well.

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